Few feelings can rival the rush of singing the words of a favorite song with friends and loved ones, whether it be in the car on a long road trip or in the pit section of a long-awaited concert. Music serves as an integral aspect of nearly every culture, religion, and national allegiance, and historians can often learn quite a bit about a given people group just from the music they made and listened to and the instruments used to create such music.

However, historians know little about the specific songs and tunes created before the age of written music and sound recording, instead relying on scripts that listed out the lyrics like a poem. That's precisely what experts study whenever they find such ancient songs, and a new discovery in that regard has happened recently; scientists uncov

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